My beef with NewEgg the last time I ordered a hard drive was that they shipped a bare drive in *just* the plastic "clam shell" in a huge box with some peanuts in it. The drive had lots of room to bounce around inside the bigger box. They need to use much smaller outer boxes, IMO. Or use the air-filled pouches around the inner box. In any event, I won't order drives from NewEgg until they change their shipping methods.

My beef with NewEgg the last time I ordered a hard drive was that they shipped a bare drive in *just* the plastic "clam shell" in a huge box with some peanuts in it. The drive had lots of room to bounce around inside the bigger box. They need to use much smaller outer boxes, IMO. Or use the air-filled pouches around the inner box. In any event, I won't order drives from NewEgg until they change their shipping methods.

Thanks.

I've had mixed results with Newegg. A single OEM Seagate NAS drive was shipped in a generic 3.5" HDD cardboard container (plastic end holders sized to fit snugly). I ordered a very large set of NAS drives and they came in half the Styrofoam block from the manufacture bulk container. The exposed half was wrapped in large bubble wrap. Then a Qnap NAS was shipped without an exterior box. The drives were fine, but the NAS was DOA. In comparison, Amazon had each drive in their own generic 3.5" HDD shipping container within a huge box.

No, you will have to re-do guided setup after replacing the drive and you will lose all of the recordings.

TiVo EULA does say that opening the unit voids the warranty. If you volunteer that you've monkeyed with the system then they might refuse warranty work.... or if you send a unit back with a non factory drive they also might refuse warranty work. From a warranty perspective the safest thing to do would be to keep the original drive, and not boast to them on the phone (as apparently someone here did) that you've replaced/upgraded the device when asking for warranty work to be done.

No, you will have to re-do guided setup after replacing the drive and you will lose all of the recordings.

TiVo EULA does say that opening the unit voids the warranty. If you volunteer that you've monkeyed with the system then they might refuse warranty work.... or if you send a unit back with a non factory drive they also might refuse warranty work. From a warranty perspective the safest thing to do would be to keep the original drive, and not boast to them on the phone (as apparently someone here did) that you've replaced/upgraded the device when asking for warranty work to be done.

Ah ok.....so I'm guessing all settings and season passes etc are lost as well. Does anyone know.....can you re-download season passes from Tivo.com after or does that get wiped once the new drive is in and the Tivo connects to the service?

As for the warranty...thanks. Kind of like the Apple warranty.....which is why I keep old RAM around just in case they refuse work with 3rd party RAM.

I realize that this is a long thread, but everything you are asking has already been covered, so you might do a search.

When you replace the drive you lose everything, including SPs, etc. You can re-transfer your SPs using tivo.com as far as I know. I just replaced my drive the day I got the box so I didn't have to mess around with losing everything later on.

I realize that this is a long thread, but everything you are asking has already been covered, so you might do a search.

When you replace the drive you lose everything, including SPs, etc. You can re-transfer your SPs using tivo.com as far as I know. I just replaced my drive the day I got the box so I didn't have to mess around with losing everything later on.

Sorry to make you waste your time.

I thought I read conflicting information, but after going through the thread again I see it's just like upgrading in the past......you lose everything including CC pairing. Only the upgrade process doesn't require a special drive with the Tivo software already on it.

So I'm guessing there is no way to transfer season passes to a new drive since Tivo.com only allows copying from 1 Tivo to another.....since there is only 1 on the account, I'm guessing after the first time the upgraded Tivo connects....it'll wipe all the season passes. Looking like kmttg if probably the best solution to copy SP for an upgraded drive.

I thought I read conflicting information, but after going through the thread again I see it's just like upgrading in the past......you lose everything including CC pairing. Only the upgrade process doesn't require a special drive with the Tivo software already on it.

So I'm guessing there is no way to transfer season passes to a new drive since Tivo.com only allows copying from 1 Tivo to another.....since there is only 1 on the account, I'm guessing after the first time the upgraded Tivo connects....it'll wipe all the season passes. Looking like kmttg if probably the best solution to copy SP for an upgraded drive.

-Kevin

In respect to wanting to "upgrade" a drive you've already been using to a new drive and you want to preserve everything then yes, the new upgrade process is not much improved over the old one where special tools needed to be use to transfer settings, recordings, etc, over to a new drive.

The advantage (and it's a big one) is if you simply want to add capacity by way of a larger drive, don't mind losing things and re-running the setup.... for that all you have to do now is physically install a disk. That's a huge win for many of us... and also makes replacement in the event of a drive failure issue a snap.

Could TiVo make it so that the SPs, cable-card pairing, and many other things were written to flash for a drive swap out? Probably... but look at it this way, the primary reason they probably made the drive easy to swap out was for MSOs.... and those MSOs might actually look at that as a dis-advantage. If a customer brings in a TiVo or a TiVo has a problem they can just put a bare drive in and "bam" new TiVo.